Basic Wage for All Farm Workers Recom Mended Finding of Rural Reconstruction Commission
The payment of a basic wage to all farm workers is recommended in a report by the Rural Reconstruction Commission…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1947
1,593 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 80
Store Butter
Mr. J. Cromarty (Nelson's Plains): Store the butter at the factories. It is the best thing you can do. The motion was adopted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle Market
All types of cattle were firm, except bullocks and steers, which declined from £1 to 30/ a head. Lightweight vealers were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hunter Farmers Urge Butter Price Increase
Unless a "satisfactory interim price" for butter is granted by April 15, a conference of all Hunter River butter factories will be called, with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairymen Incensed Threat to Withhold Supplies in Butter Districts
Dairymen throughout the butter and cheese manufacturing districts of New South Wales were incensed at the decision of the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Greasy Merino Wool to 61d
SYDNEY, Tuesday.— Greasy merino fleece sold to 61d a lb for six bales of JJP/Mudgee at Sydney wool sales yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War or Civilisation. "Church's Most Solemn Warning." Bishop's Lenten Pastoral
In his Lenten pastoral, read in all Anglican churches on Sunday last, the Rt. Rev. Dr. de Witt Batty, Bishop of Newcastle, said that in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Labour's Gift to Watersiders Farmers Ignored
"The Federal Government's open-handed treatment of waterside workers at the taxpayers 'expense contrasts strikingly with its…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Basic Wage For All Farm Workers Recommended
The payment of a basic wage to all farm workers is recommended in a report by the Rural Reconstruction Commission…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Conditions Improve in Dairy Industry
“Since the January report, conditions have improved greatly, much good [?]oaking rain having fallen through the month…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drought Relief for Dairymen
MUSWELLBROOK : Mr. D’Arcy Rose, M.L.A., has received a letter from the Premier regarding the question of drought relief payments…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Cows Dear While Fat Market Drops
Contrasts in fluctuations of values at Maitland saleyards yesterday were remarkable for the drop in prices of fat cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Caterpillars Attack Crops on Manning
WINGHAM: A plague of caterpillars has struck positions of the Maning River district, and extensive damage is being done to maize and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter May Be Withheld Dairymen Becoming Restless
Hunter River butter factories may be asked by producers to withhold supplies unless the price is raised to a payable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bowthorne Butter Factory Shows Profit
The directors’ report of the Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Factory. Ltd. at Morpeth, to be submitted to the annual meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Plan to Stand
SYDNEY, Wednesday.— The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. Pollard, told a deputation of wheat-growers in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →70d for Mudgee Wool
SYDNEY, Wed. — The top price of 70d was realised at Sydney wool sales for six bales from the Mudgee district. Values ruled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →World Wool Surplus Will Continue
WASHINGTON, March 5—The Agricultural Department has recommended the fixing of wool import quotas and authorisation for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →M.Z.D.C. Meeting Comparatively Quiet Conflicting Opinions On Butter Prices
The annual meeting of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council was hold in the Masonic Hall yesterday. The meeting was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairymen Under Slave Conditions
SINGLETON, Wednesday— A motion by the secretary of the Singleton branch of the Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council, that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →